To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery

Key Stage 2

English spelling

Suffixes:  -ary / -ery

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The Borrowers - Narrative writing

﻿Hi there. My name's Mr. Burnsmith and today we're going to be doing spelling. In particular, we're going to be looking at the -ry suffix E-R-Y and A-R-Y. If you haven't yet watched Lesson 2/10 I recommend that you do that first because it's going to be really really useful for today's lesson. Okay, let's make a start. Here's the agenda for today's lesson. First, we're going to look at some key vocabulary. Then we're going to recap the spelling rules. After that we'll learn a new strategy, before finally doing our test. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, pencil and then of course, your brain. If you need to go off and get any of these things, pause the video now. Okay, let's go through some key vocabulary. My turn, your turn. Suffix. A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning and sometimes class. Adjective. An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you what its like. Noun. A noun is a person, place or thing. Root word. A root word is the most basic version of a word. It has no prefixes or suffixes. Let's recap the rules for these suffixes. So we're looking at the -ry suffixes that's -ery and -ary. Now both of these suffixes behave slightly differently. So it's important that you look at them separately, even though they sound the same and look very similar. First, let's look at the -ery suffix. Here we have four words which have made use of the -ery suffix. Let's see if we can figure out the root word that each of these came from. We have scenery, bravery, bakery and slippery. Pause the video now. Okay, so scenery, bravery, bakery and slippery. Scenery comes from the word scene, bravery from the word brave, bakery from the word bake, and slippery comes from the root word slip. Here we've noticed that all of these root words are obvious. They're clear and distinct. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. This is not always the case, but very frequently. Here we have a word which has made use of the -ery suffix. I need your help figuring out the root word. The word is trickery. Pause the video now. Okay, trickery comes from trick. You can see that in this instance the -ery suffix was added straight on the end without any change being made to the root word. This time we've got the root word mock. I need your help adding the -ery suffix. Pause the video now. Okay, mock becomes mockery. Once again, we've been able to add the -ery suffix right on the end. Here we have each of our words. Scene which has become scenery, brave which has become bravery, bake which has become bakery, and slip which has become slippery. We're going to figure out the word class of each of these. We're going to start with the root words, scene, brave, bake, and slip. I'd like you to figure out the word class of these now. Pause the video. Okay, scene is a noun, brave is an adjective, bake is a verb, and slip is a noun but it could also be a verb, so let's say noun/verb. Okay, so we have a variety of word classes here. When we add the -ery suffix, I wonder if the word class changes. Let's figure out the word class of the words that have had the -ery suffix applied so scenery, bravery, bakery, slippery. Pause the video now. Okay, scenery is a noun, bravery is a noun, bakery is a noun, slippery an adjective. The -ery suffix often turns words into... Pause the video to help me complete this rule. Okay, the -ery suffix often turns words into nouns. There's our rule. Now we know this doesn't happen all the time, we had an example of a word being turned into an adjective, however, it is the most common use of the -ery suffix. Now, let's look at the -ary suffix. Here we have four words which have had the -ary suffix applied to them. Imaginary, primary, vocabulary, and library. I'd like you to help me work out the root words for each of these. Remember the root word isn't always obvious. So if there isn't an obvious root word, there isn't an obvious root word, that's fine. Do as many as you can do. Pause the video now. Okay, let's hear our root words. The root word of imaginary is imagine, the root word of primary is prime, and then vocabulary and library, well, they don't have an obvious root word, which is fine. In fact, that tells us something about the -ary suffix. If the root word is not obvious, the ending is often -ary. When choosing between the -ery and -ary suffix, this is very useful to remember. If there's no obvious root word, then it's probably -ary. If there is an obvious root word, then its probably -ery. Obviously, this isn't always the case but it's a really good starting point. Let's look at the word class of each of our words. I've done the first one for you. I know that imagine is a verb. When I put it into a sentence to test it, it becomes a doing or being word. I'd like your help with the next word prime. Pause the video now. Okay, so prime is an adjective. So we have a verb and an adjective. Obviously, we can't work out the word class of the two question marks because we don't know what those words are. So we'll leave those for now. But how about when the -ary suffix is applied? Does it change the word class of our root word? We have imaginary, primary, vocabulary and library. I'd like your help now figuring out the word class of each of these four. Pause the video. Okay, imaginary is an adjective, primary is an adjective, vocabulary is a noun, and library is a noun. So half and half. We can see from this, that the -ary suffix turns words into adjectives and nouns. So let's complete our rule. The -ary suffix often turns words into... or ... I need your help. Pause the video now and complete the rule. Okay, the -ary suffix often turns words into nouns or adjectives. Fantastic. So we've really got to the bottom of how these two suffixes are used. Here we have an example of the -ery suffix being used and the -ary suffix being used. Scene has become scenery and imagine has become imaginary. Now in both of these instances, our root word, scene and imagine, ends in an e. If you look very carefully, before adding the suffix I have removed the e. So what can we say our rule is? If the root word ends in an ..., remove the ... and add the suffix. Pause the video now and help me fill in the rule. Okay, so if the root word ends in an e, remove the e and add the suffix. That means that scene becomes scenery, imagine becomes imaginary. We have two more. Brave and prime. Help me complete these by adding the appropriate suffix. Pause the video now. Okay, brave becomes bravery and prime becomes primary. And you can see that I've removed my e. Let's remind ourself of this really important rule. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. If the root word is not obvious, the ending is often -ary. We're going to test this now. I'm going to give you a word. The word I give you will have had the -ry suffix applied to it but which one? That's the question. Remember obvious root -ery, no obvious root -ary. The first word is feathery. Pause the video now and have a go. Okay, feathery takes the -ery suffix. That's because feathery is made using the root word feather. Feather is an obvious root word, therefore your best bet is to guess that it makes use of the -ery suffix. The next word is temporary. Pause the video now. Okay, temporary is spelt using the

ary suffix. Temporary doesn't have an obvious root word so if I had to guess, if I had to go for the best bet I would go with the -ary ending because the vast majority of words without an obvious root word take the -ary ending. Okay, it's time for us to learn a new strategy. This strategy is called say it as it sounds. This is a really useful strategy where we read a word using the more obvious pronunciation. By doing this, we can highlight the really peculiar and strange things about how some words are pronounced. I'm going to use the example library. Now if you listen to me pronounce library, you can't really hear that there are two r's but in fact there are two r's in the word library. If I were to read it literally and slowly, I would say something like library. Library. Now when I come to write the word library, I pronounce it like this. By pronouncing it like this I can hear it's spelling very clearly. Library. Obviously I wouldn't pronounce it like this in day to day life. When it comes to writing and reading this is really useful. Library. Now, why is this a useful strategy? Well, firstly it give you a chance to hear the word multiple times. Hearing words help us spell them better. It's important that we don't just read words but that we use them out loud as well. Secondly, it makes us slow down when learning the word. By slowing down, we're more likely to take it in. Thirdly, it helps us identify tricky letters and sounds. Lots of words are made up of strange or peculiar spellings. This is often seen in how they're pronounced. Therefore, by reading a word exactly how its written we're highlighting the things that are most tricky about it. Let's use our new strategy on some of this week's spelling words. I've given you four examples but you can go for any. We have February, bravery, bakery and scenery. Pause the video now. Okay, time for our spelling test. Firstly, I'd like you to pause the video and write the numbers one to ten. Do that now. Okay, I'm going to read the words out slowly and I'm going to put them into a sentence. I really recommend that you pause the video whenever necessary. If there are any words you are unsure about, you could write out a few options and go for the one you think looks right. Alternatively, you could write them down, say them out loud and go for the one that sounds right. These are two strategies which might make this test a little bit easier for you. Let's start with out first word which is library. Library. She scurried into the library to see what was in there. Two, February. February. This was a room she hadn't seen since February. Three, primary. Primary. His primary focus was getting out of there alive. Four, necessary. Necessary. Leaving the house wasn't necessary, so he didn't want her to do it. Five, ordinary. Ordinary. These are no ordinary creatures. Six, bakery. Bakery. It had been ages since they'd had fresh bread from the bakery. Seven, mystery. Mystery. They had no idea where he'd gone. What a mystery. Eight, bravery. Bravery. Her bravery meant she didn't mind the occasional risk. Nine, scenery. Scenery. She step outside and couldn't believe the scenery. Ten, nursery. Nursery. He didn't want to spend time in the nursery, he wasn't a baby. Okay, we're going to go through the answers. If there are any that you haven't got right, don't worry about it, but please do write out the correct spelling next to your answer. And then have a look at how many words how many letters you might have got right in the word. It's very easy to focus on what you got wrong, but think about all the things you get right. Here are our words. I'm going to go through them one by one and read out each letter. One, Library. L-I-B-R-A-R-Y. Two, February. F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y. Three, Primary. P-R-I-M-A-R-Y. Four, necessary. N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y. Five, ordinary. O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y. Six, bakery. B-A-K-E-R-Y. Seven, mystery. M-Y-S-T-E-R-Y. Eight, bravery. B-R-A-V-E-R-Y. Nine, scenery. S-C-E-N-E-R-Y. Ten, nursery. N-U-R-S-E-R-Y. Okay. Congratulations, that's the end of the lesson. We have looked at key vocabulary, we've recapped the spelling rules, we've learnt a brand new strategy and we've done our test which is an awful lot if you ask me. So well done for all of your hard work. Bye.

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery

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